I ave recently purchased WinEdt 9.0 along with a new Lenovo laptop that I am running Windows 7 on. I am able to compile articles (tex to pdf) but am unable to compile a prosper slide file. When I tried to compile it asked if I would allow the computer to download and install a collection of style files. I said yes to all. Then, I hit the pdfT icon and it went into the green circle loop, saying that the console was in pdfTexify. It circled for many many minutes but eventually I received an indecipherable error compilation report with 4 errors and 3 warnings. One says "I couldn't open the file name ____.aux, another says permission denied for _____.log. I can't even see any other errors listed in the compilation. I am sure it is something simple but have no idea what to do. I am pasting below the prosper file, longer than you need but I did not bother shortening it. Please help - I desperately need to prepare some slides for a presentation in a few days. Thanks, Alan

Johannes - Thanks for the prompt reply and encouraging words. first, what do you mean by fix the author block. It was never a problem with my old version of WinEdt on my old Sony Vaio. Second, how can I run dvi. The only compile button available to me is either P or L. None of the others are lit. - Alan